State v. White

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS No. 122,039 STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee, v. JOHNNY C. WHITE, Appellant. SYLLABUS BY THE COURT 1. When a district court excludes evidence at trial, the party seeking to admit that evidence must make a sufficient substantive proffer to preserve the issue for appeal. A formal proffer is not required, and we may review the claim as long as an adequate record is made in a manner that discloses the evidence sought to be introduced. The purpose of such a proffer is two-fold—first, to procedurally preserve the issue for review, and second, to substantively…